Dear CD Projekt Red, i just recently found out there is DirectX 12 support for Windows 7. Can we not have a Windows 7 DX12 compatible version of the game now? My money (and likely hundreds of thousands of other WIndows 7 users) is waiting to be given to you.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14078/microsoft-brings-dx12-to-windows-7

Thank you :D

EDIT:

I also found this snippet from the guys at MS that have been working on this, just in case anyone at CD Projekt Red want to get hold of them and see what can be done for Cyberpunk 2077:

https://forum.beyond3d.com/posts/2062153/

Better off going to Vulkan instead of dx12.

-hopefully- Cyberpunk 2077 has Vulkan support.

I really appreciate CDPR and bought all of their stuff until today; love the Witcher games. But concerning
Cyberpunk it´s very simple to me ( and probably thousands of other potential customers ). No win 7 support means
no buy. End of discussion. Doesn´t necessarily mean it won´t run; bought Detroit become human recently after testing the
demo; it´s declared for win 10 minimum system requirements but runs smoothly on my win 7 machine. Will wait for some
bravehearted win 7 user to hear if Cyberpunk runs on 7.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/265033/proportion-of-operating-systems-used-on-the-online-gaming-platform-steam/

Just to give a vague ball park hint of current Windows 7 usage ;)

It has certainly gone down since EOL, but still 'decent' vs all other OS choices (bar W10). I notice many new people come to Linux Mint forums moving from Windows 7, and then you have people like me that simply see Windows 10 like a virus and have mostly moved to Linux, keeping Win7 (the best MS OS in hindsight) in offline mode for games and other programs Linux might not have.

The same here: no Windows 7 support by Cyberpunk 2077, then the game is NOT a buy for me. I do not support spy- and malware like Windows 10!

I'm more concerned whether there's Windows 8.1 support since it's not EoL'd, whereas Windows 7 is and was already announced to be at the time this topic was made.

You are either young or stupid.
I have first-hand experience of Sasser infecting well-updated large company networks. Every single windows pc. By itself.

If its attached to network, its attached to network.

He/she (Yunipuma) is neither young nor stupid! The most of malware come to a Windows OS by email, that is a fact. Maybe the activating of your brain.exe will solve the situation with the emails?

And in the case of Windows 10: what use are security updates inclusive Microsoft-spyware? I do need a logic, plausibel, rational, persuasive answer from you... user Lin545. We all do need a logic, plausibel, rational, persuasive answer from you. Yes, what use are security updates for Windows 10 inclusive Microsoft-spyware???

True. Windows 8 users have kinda been treated badly in general (having to put up with that awful GUI for a start!). I guess as it does have DX12 native support it 'should' be more likely to run Cyberpunk?

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Some more on the DX12 possibilities for Win7 users:

https://www.pcgamer.com/microsoft-finally-ports-directx-12-to-windows-7-but-only-for-certain-games/

Answer about yourself and for >yourself<.

Irrelevant. Any stack that sticks out of the network, directly or via chain, is vulnerable.

Irrelevant noise.

Windows n is MS platform. They have full control over it. You can either agree to use it and trust; or disagree to use it and use alternatives. It doesn't mean you shouldn't be skeptical, but you have no control over its code (over what it does).

What you stick into network, you stick into network. Please get basic information how exploit chains are run, things like metasploit. Solution is to remove system and hardware from network and minimize information exchange channels. If you can't, can try put it behind updated layers (classic heterogeneous stuff) with minimum on whitelisting, but there is no guarantee something still short-circuits.

I already told you an example, RPC service that advertises itself, runs privileged and vital to system. And that is a 20-year old example written by a teenage guy that circumvented all the classic layers.

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Edit: RPC, not RFC.

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Edit2: Discovered this today, brings distant memories.

Oh wow it does not. Not sure where i thought it had came from. Man i'm happy i sort of 'gave up' on Microsoft with Windows 8, two generations of pretty terrible OS since Win 7.

If there is no Windows 7 support, I simply won't be able to play the game. It's either Win 7 or Linux.

There's like 90% probability that this game will run in wine/proton/whatever. Performance is a different question. But of course i would be great if developers at least broke radio silence on what graphics API game will use - DX11, Vulkan or DX12. First two will mean that there will be zero problems with graphics in Linux, in case of Vulkan - pretty much no performance loss, like 5-10% less than native tops. DX12 will be like a roadblock for Win7-8 people and will make it not so clear on how the game will run in wine etc. Because some DX12 games run very well, others - not really.

You can't really ask CDPR to support windows 7 when Microsoft no longer does it.